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Nation within a Nation
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No other region has been more important than the South in determining the course of U.S. politics and history. This was so in 1776, and 1865, and is still true today, although in vastly different ways.
The South’s relationship to the federal government has been intriguing and unique, and it vitally informs the region’s continued import to American politics, society, and culture. No other state played a larger role than Virginia in the founding of the United States and the early Republic. Figures of the Virginia Dynasty such as Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Edmund Randolph, Richard Henry Lee, and Patrick Henry loom over the founding and early years of the American experiment. Other giants—southern as well—played outsized roles in these early decades and throughout the antebellum period: Andrew Jackson and James K. Polk of Tennessee, Henry Clay of Kentucky, John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, and John Marshall, John Randolph, and John Tyler of Virginia to name but a few. Indeed, southerners have actually lent their names to two of the most important early eras in American history: the Jeffersonian and Jacksonian periods.
Glenn Feldman - Personal Name
1st Edtion
978-0-8130-4987-8
NONE
Nation within a Nation
Management
English
2014
USA
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